November 24, 1963. 47 years ago today. As a 12 year old I witnessed, live, the plugging of the fall guy for the JFK murder inside the Dallas jail. The execution was staged for maximum effect, occurring while the entire nation was riveted to the tube watching mourners file past the flag-draped coffin of the fallen leader lying in state in the Capitol Rotunda.

Think about it. What other executions have been broadcast live on network teevee since the Oswald slaying? I can only think of one.

September 11, 2001. While the entire nation was riveted to the tube watching the towers burn, the order was given to “pull” them, giving viewers the opportunity to witness, live, the execution of thousands of fellow citizens.

Fortunately for Mayor Rudy Guiliani, he was given a heads up 15 minutes before the first tower was pulled. The poor slobs of the NYFD inside the towers weren’t so lucky.

Because the perps of those two treasonous crimes have been given a free pass by the compliant citizenry, the current Fascist-in-Chief is now free to molest our children.

A sternly-worded letter?

Since when has Obama cared even that much for the lesser people?

Yep. What a deterioration from the halcyon W days when sternly worded letters flew all over the place.

Really informative program on DPRK’s nuke program on cspan3.

And this relates to the post how, exactly? Y’know, maybe you should start your own 9/11 conspiracy blog where you can rant and rave all day long about it, and not subject others who want to talk about something else. Just sayin’

Sorry, my #5 is in response to #1.

The exams are designed in part to ensure that filed foreclosures meet legal requirements and that affidavits the firms are filing in the nation’s courts are accurate.

In part? What’s the other part?

The sternly worded letter will say what? You’re in big trouble, buster. Wait until your father gets home.

When I mess up, I pay the consequences. For sure.

Many thanks…later.

Good Morning, Molly. How ya be? Even though we’re going elsewhere for Thanksgiving, I’m doing some heavy cleaning around here. The holidays are a great excuse. :O)

Hit and run, huh?

Thanks for posting this. I missed this last night due to T feast shopping. This piece needs to be combined with the news from a recent recent New Jersey Bankruptcy case ( In Re Kemp v. Countrywide ) concerning a Bank of America mortgage purchased with the Countrywide purchase. A BofA executive has testified that although B of A put the mortgages on it’s books, they did not get the actual mortgages nor transfer the same to the trusts. A clear security fraud situation and a problem for all the Countrywide/Bank of America foreclosures in the system. B of A would be on the hook for billions of bad loans and securities problem. The information is at the American Banker which is a password protected site.

demi said

“When I mess up, I pay the consequences. For sure.”

And Obama and the Corporepublicrats ensure that when the masters of the universe mess up you will pay the consequences. For sure.

While our lords and masters laugh and laugh and laugh…

It’s good to see Taibbi on this.

Although he’s got a long way to go to get his credibility back with some of us (due to his ridicule of 9/11 Truth activism).

If you’re reading this thread Matt, may I please ask you to revisit that. Especially due to all the new developments. I was there with you that evening in the coffee shop on 56th St. when the obviously deranged Nico Haupt harrassed you and you stormed off. We are not like him. Please, Matt, you could be such a powerful voice for justice…

Mornin’, BT, pups

I have to make deposits at BoA for a couple property owners each month. It’s a small branch and the faces on the employees are more somber each visit. You;d think the Sword of Damocles was hanging over each one.

And I’m sure the sternly worded letter is being held up in committee.

Sure, that was off-topic. But you know what? In the big picture it’s all related, and I for one am glad he put it there and thankful that the Lake has been so progressive about not censoring such things.

Did you take note that Matt will be here on Saturday for the Book Salon?

I wonder what Pope Ratzi Nazi will say about this one:

A Roman Catholic priest has been arrested on charges that he solicited a hit man to kill a teenager who had accused him of sexual abuse.

How Jesuslike.

Morning, Margaret. More good news, my car’s officially almost history. After trying to diagnose the problems, we finally bit it and took it to a shop. Head gasket’s going south. More joy.

Keep your friends close, and your enemies dead. Isn’t that from the Sermon On The Mount?

Thanks.

My comment was OT too. Anyone want to fight about it?

Replacing the head gasket is cheaper than buyin’ another car.

Sorry, I “hit and run” too, Demi. I am leaving for Indy in a couple of hours, on to spend T’giving with my new daughter-in-law’s family, and I’m trying to shower, finish packing, and cut up veggies for a relish tray I’m taking.

I watch Countdown and Rachel online now, so will have to catch Matt’s segment later, but I think he’s been on with KO discussing the same thing, maybe just last week.

Hope to be back in town for the Book Salon. I read Matt’s blog.

No shit!

I’ll put out the word to the other folks that were there with him.

THANKS!!

Except that it’s got 287,000 miles already and other things are going south too. The mister thinks he can scrape together 1500 or so to find a new to me one. :(

Maybe there was something about blessed are the hit men that the people who were recording it missed.

I agree about censoring, but we just had a huge round of conspiracy discussion on Nov. 22nd. and frankly, some people have a one-note song and it gets really tiresome to some of us. My opinion, of course, but to start off trying to hijack a thread on the very first comment seems like at least a violation of blog etiquette.

Now, back to T’giving prep.

I’m sure a sternly-worded letter’s in the mail.

No doubt! Too bad that prosecutions of as many of these criminals as possible is what’s needed to fix the problem.

“END CORPORATE PERSONHOOD”

Thought about you when I saw an article about the Non-Jewish spouse celebrating their first Hannuka.
Have fun in Indy.

*sigh* I hate it when that happens. They don’t call it the infernal combustion engine for nothin’.

Sorry about your car but 300,000 miles is definitely getting your investment back. Especially in Southern California.

Know about Move to Amend?

Excuse me, Poor slobs NYFD does not compute.

Rescue One the most dedicated, well trained and finest human beings, who would lay down their life for a complete stranger, certainly are not slobs.

Short pistols, or shall I get out my gloves?

I agree and am extremely happy that the lake doesn’t censor like so many others do but you’re right. Some people around here have a one track mind. An asteroid could hit the planet and wipe out Detroit and it would be a “CIA false flag” operation. It gets mighty old but I’ve been trying to push my ignore button.

Mister says people are dumping cars for cheap. Things like “I like my car and it runs well, but I need rent money.” F’ing sad.

Thank you so much for the link!

The rise of these monsters to masters of the political universe during the last 20 years is the root of most of this country’s problems in our generation.

It’s said a picture says a thousand words; but the picture accompanying Taibbi’s 11/25 Rolling Stone article really tells the whole fucking story of contemporary America.

I can’t post the picture here but maybe BT or one of the other mods can.

In the picture a homeowner (read average American citizen) is on the ground clutching her house while three fat cat, top-hatted greedy pigs stomp her. In the background is the judge, looking like he can’t be bothered, and the dis-interested bailiff. The American flag has $$$$ instead of stars.

Like I said, it’s truly representative of contemporary, corporate America. The greed-heads have all four branches, legislative, executive, judicial and establishment media under their complete control.

Of the millionaires, by the lobbyists, for the billionaires…

Heh, if my truck bites the dust I’m on my bike or afoot. Couldn’t even afford a clunker.

You know, honey, we paid only 750 for it (plus the mister replaced the distributor) two years ago. It was a great deal. We’ll find another one, I bet. And, my daughter is bringing me her old business computer at Xmas. So, a little more patience, and I’ll be good.

Because of where we live, it would be best for me to have motorized wheels. I told him I’d take a little scooter. Like Mouse On A Motorcycle. My sister said she’d start calling me Ralph.

It’s true. Those second cars, boats, RVs, all of the big ticket luxuries are for sale dirt cheap. A good indicator that we’re not even close to turning the corning on the economy. I got scolded last night at HuffPo for saying that my jobless benefits expired. Apparently I wasn’t being “patient enough” with Obama who has “turned the economy around and now jobs will come”.
More delusional than the false flag crowd IMO.

If we’re lucky this porno scanner thing just might peel the scales from a lot of American’s eyes. People are beginning to pay attention to the connection between Pistole and Chertoff’s corporate whoring.

Trotsky once said the difference between an evolutionary and a revolutionary is that the revolutionary takes advantage of opportunities as they arise.

Grand. Now I guess that those of us who are actually reading Matt’s book can look forward to the Book Salon being full of conspiracy theorists who aren’t there to discuss the book.

being “patient enough” with Obama who has “turned the economy around and now jobs will come”.

JHFC on a crutch.

My car just turned six and has about 54,000 miles on it. I’m hoping it holds out because it is one of the few things that I own outright.

FYI: The rules of the Book Salon are to stay on topic, and I’m about 100% certain that the topic will relate to Wall Street’s criminal looting of the Treasury, and not to…um…other topics.

Firepups: Are those the rules? If not, please correct me.

Yup. Here’s the whole comment:

“D@mn it, Margaret. Why can’t you understand that the economy HAD to be shored up first. Now that is done, the jobs should start to come back. Obama could not make everything perfect overnight. Things would be moving along lots faster if it were not for gop obstructionism.”

Delusional or what? It’s important to note that the comment she was responding to never even mentioned Obama.

Mods are very attentive to people who go off topic at book saloons. Conspiracy theory comments will get deleted in a blink. That’s not censorship, it’s curtailing rudeness to the authors.

Owe ya a beverage.

I’ll be patient for the plans that my family is making to keep me going. I’m not feeling like being patient for the prez or any other government officials to do The Right Thing(s).

What a load of horseshit.

100% correct. And, at the Salon they WILL mod ot discussions.

Y’know, maybe you should start your own 9/11 conspiracy blog where you can rant and rave all day long about it, and not subject others who want to talk about something else.

Yeah, he could call his blog “The Grassy Knoll”.

Cmon, it’s the “elephant in the room.” We HAVE to be PITA’s, and we all should know by now that there wouldn’t have been any investigation at all if it hadn’t been for the Jersey Girls constant work.

This blog is very widely-read, and the threads grow very long very quickly. Ghost happened to come to this diary first and took advantage of the golden opportunity to put something at the top where everyone could see it. I would do the same in a heartbeat.

I bet that if you engaged him in a conversation, you’d find out there are all sorts of things he’s on top of. But “first things first” as the old saying goes…

Well, if you and I weren’t so lazy, if we cleaned off our front porches, we’d find that perfect job that someone left for us there. Do I need to use a snark tag?

Now that is done, the jobs should start to come back.

What, you don’t believe in the power of a fire hats and magic wands? What about Ouija boards?

See SD’s comment at 49. Book Salon rules are to stay on topic.

Count on it.

No tags needed demi. :)

I’d much rather be discussing on-topic.

It’s why I clicked on this Diary.

You must be new here. We see it almost every morning. It gets old, particularly for those of us who aren’t into it. Cindy Sheehan was gracious enough to make an appearance for St Pete for Peace. Truthers showed up and made every effort to hijack the event. I don’t have much tolerance for behaviour of that sort.

Then if I were you, I wouldn’t count on the mods being patient. Jacking a book salon is frowned upon.

Think it should be a triple cap this morning. Much appreciated.

I, for one, don’t want to see half-cocked conspiracy theorists invade Mr. Taibbi’s time with a bunch of cockamamie horseshit when we’ve got…ya know…bigger fish to fry in that tight window. KnowwhatImean?

With the Kenyan Socialist, wouldn’t that be Voodoo collectivism?

I’m pickin’ up the second round. What’ll it be?

You nailed it, as usual.

Little early for single malt. Tea’ll be fine.

I long ago accepted that I was an idiot, traitor, sheep, lemming, (add descriptive here), because I don’t reflexively believe in missiles, implosions or the Great Pumpkin. My religion is science and my fuel is evidence. As you and I both pointed out though, it gets old.

Hey, where’d eCAHN go? I thought she wanted to fight me? How ’bout mud wrestling, dear? :)

I found a new tea yesterday at the Vallerta market. Chamomille and Anise. Yummers.

And also replying to #63. You do realize of course that Cindy Sheehan is One Of Us. That’s right.

And the Salon is about Matt Taibbi. I could just go hang out outside his office on 6th Avenue if I wanted to hassle him. But I never would do that and I actually like him. I’ve read everything he’s put out.

I’m only going to send notice to the 4 or 5 of us that he agreed to sit down with, before the troll stormed in and ruined our meeting.

Have you ever been Blinded By Scieince?

Indeed I have.

It doesn’t matter whether Cindy is a Truther or not. That’s not what she was there to discuss and it wasn’t what those who attended were there to discuss. A number of loud, rude individuals wanted to talk conspiracy horseshit and Cindy shut them down. There’s a time and a place. Common courtesy in this country is becoming a rare commodity. “It’s all about what I want to talk about” is replacing it.

The statement that Bush had knowledge of the 9/11 attack is ludicrous. Why? Because it contains the words “Bush” and “knowledge” in the same sentence.

What was pointed out to Bush was the intel report, “Al-Qaeda determined to strike inside the US.” He blew it off, and here we are.

19 (mostly Saudi) dudes jacked fully-fueled airplanes and piloted them into buildings. End of story. The rest is window dressing, speculation and bullshit. And while people are chasing their tails conjuring up this nonsense, Wall Street corporate criminals continue looting the Treasury.

Focus the energy where it really matters. If you want to demonstrate, do it on Wall Street. That is productive activity, spinning conspiracy theories is not.

Ah Marion, somehow I’d be willing to wager that the Mods will be quite willing to enforce the “As a courtesy to the guest, take the Off topics conversations to other threads” rules

I’ve noticed that while some off topic comments do make it on to Book Salon threads, they usually don’t last long

I don’t think the mods are going to see it your way but by all means, be disruptive since that’s what the tinfoil hat crowd is good at.

You do realize of course that Cindy Sheehan is One Of Us.
Here’s the deal: Of course he does! Until you’ve been around long enough to know people, it’s best to stick with comments relating to issues you know about. For your sake, your reputation and others blood pressure.

oops and looks like I owe SD and ShotoJamf a drink

We had a truther in Austin disrupt and try to jack a meeting about trying to take the Congress back. It wasn’t pretty.

Speaking of science, I dug your diary. I did have a problem with it, however.

If the earth is 6,000 years old (and humans and dinosaurs hung around together), then how can all that science-ey stuff be true.

See? Gotcha, didn’t I. Praise Jeebuz.

Ahem. Me too.
On edit: #57, But really, I wanted to see if Edit was really fixed. Woo Hoo, y’all.

Off to swim in the great capitalist cesspool.

US KIA Afghanistan: 1,402

US KIA Irak: 4,429

Iraki, Afghan and Pakistani casualties: estimates vary to over 1.5M

US MBS 2010: 40,548 and counting

Cornbread and butterbeans

Be good to yourselves, and all other living things

Namaste

19 (mostly Saudi) dudes jacked fully-fueled airplanes and piloted them into buildings. End of story. The rest is window dressing, speculation and bullshit. And while people are chasing their tails conjuring up this nonsense, Wall Street corporate criminals continue looting the Treasury.

This is key because ridiculous theories about implosions distract from very legitimate questions about those events, not to mention the ongoing theft of the wealth and freedoms of this country’s working class.

The ones I’m going to inform aren’t like that. After all these years we’ve learned to “play nice.” It will be more productive to stay on-topic and let him get to know us better.

Yup.

WAAAY ahead of ya. I wrote a diary addressing that long ago.
I’m glad you enjoyed it. :)

Did MSNBC deliberately pick Chris Hayes for his resemblance to Rachel Maddow?

Very cool. I’ll check it out.

At this rate, I’m gonna be plowed before I have my second cup of coffee. heh

Busted link. Sorry about that. Try this one.

Where’s my edit function? Don’t make me get on the news….

There. A good tantrum is so cathartic.

Yeah, he could call his blog “The Grassy Knoll”.

LOL. At the very least, that’s what reader diaries are for.

I’m glad I’m not the only one to see the similarities. :)

I would highly recommend they be well versed in what’s going on with Treasury etc because the commenters who will be there are wonks who have followed this financial disaster since the beginning. This isn’t Matt’s first appearance here and he knows what to expect from us.

Oh no! And I just had breakfast…

I think it’s slightly creepy.

“These problems must be fixed,” Assistant Treasury Secretary Michael Barr told members of the Financial Stability Oversight Council, the newly formed panel of regulators responsible for identifying potential risks to the financial system.

Oversight Councils! We are blessed. The government officials now realize this may be a serious problem. The problem is how this Oversight Council can steal homeowners mortgages the way the Cafoodies are stealing Social Security.

Edit function works now silly. I’ve already used it on this very thread.

Oh, EMS’s almost over and we didn’t get to talk about DWTS. And, I had a great line ready. Sarah’s daughter: The other BP diaster.

Do you really?

Sarah’s daughter: The other BP diaster.

That is a great line. What’s DWTS?

I do, though I’m not sure why.

Dancing With The Stars. I don’t and didn’t watch, but people were talking about it.

Because he’s slightly prettier?

Ah! I couldn’t have talked with you about that anyway.

Also, Matt Taibbi should give up on the comb over. As a balding male, my advice is, just go with it.

You mean I have to take back my tantrum? Shit.

That might be it. :) Or maybe I’m just losing my grip on reality.

I watched the first season of Survivor and haven’t watched a single minute of any other reality show. Nada. Zip.
But, there are articles about that stuff that I swing through sometimes. You learn things like BP said that if she won it would be like one huge middle finger towards those who hate her and her mommy. Very classy, don’t you think? Great parenting.

Ah! But you don’t understand. When he deactivates his comb over, he stops being Matt Taibbi, mild mannered reporter and becomes Captain Reflecto. Using his awesome blinding scalp to fight crime everywhere.

(singing) Getting to know you. Getting to know all about you….

Yep. Whoops. ;)

Yikes. The jobs will come back, Virginia? The most optimistic estimates I’ve seen are that unemployment will still be 9% at the end of 2011!

I very rarely look at HuffPo any more. Many of the articles make use of left-wing language to espouse right-wing principles, and then their comment boards are just LOADED with trolls. Those two things, plus the fact that their javascript bogs down even the fastest browsers to a crawl, make HuffPo unreadable on multiple levels, IMO.

Still, once in a while, I delude myself into thinking that maybe it’ll be better if I just take another look. I am continually disappointed.

Lol, nice. Does he change in a phone booth?

That’s the first time my baldness has made anyone break out in song.

Blinded by baldness. You know, many women find it very sexy. Depending on the guy of course. Chertoff not so much.

And the Salon is about Matt Taibbi.

No the salon is about Matt Taibbi’s book – a bit of a difference there.

The statement that Bush had knowledge of the 9/11 attack is ludicrous. Why? Because it contains the words “Bush” and “knowledge” in the same sentence.

LMFAO! How I needed that laugh! Lifted my spirit on an otherwise blecchy day.

I promise I will do my best to make sure they know the guidelines. This means a very great deal to us…

Eww. Skeletor. I just threw up in my mouth a little.

Saw-ree. I guess I owe you something.

Nope. Only at TSA checkpoints.

I’ve heard that before. Wonder why. Chertoff’s going for the Captain Picard look, not the best idea in his case.

So his arch-nemesis is The Groper™?

Pay very close attention to what dakine said at 119. I’ll add that it’s not a bit of difference but a lot of difference.

You guys are cracking me up, but I gots to go.
Great fun this morning.

Yes, that’s what I meant to say.

And, O/T, as a balding male myself, I’ve begun to actually enjoy shaving my bean. A side benefit it that in the colder days the stubble does a great job of holding my hat in place. Kinda like Mother Nature’s Velcro.

And for so many years I wore my long long golden ponytail, sob.

Adios y cuidate, amiga.

And fossils are lies of the Devil.
And Jesus loves capitalists most.

What? You mean it would be a bad thing to bring up the comb over? Ducking. I’m kidding, I’m kidding. And, you and Dakine are more than correct. I was going to say the same thing, but got caught up in silliness. But, some people don’t listen well anyway, so What Ever.

I gotta go too. Later everyone. :)

Sonriendo.

I think I’ll be on my way as well. Take care peeps.

The blinding scalp doesn’t work on TV. HD makeup has a matte finish. :)

Which is why The Adventures of Captain Reflecto and Baldo Boy never caught ion.

Happy Thanksgiving, pups. I plan to take a break from politics and FDL later today to enjoy whatever life has to offer, such as hikes in the quiet desert (which, last I checked, is still kinda sorta legal).

I saw Matt Taibbi last night talking to Chris; think the book salon is a “must do” if I’m not hiking again at that time.

What. a. mess.

Y’all be nice to one another now.

P.S. Demi: those head gaskets usually cost around $1500. It could possibly extend the life of you jalopy depending on what else is wrong with it. I have a 21 year old Camry with about the same mileage, and I can still get away without replacing the head gasket (for a bit). But it might be worth considering replacing it. just saying… you live in CA, so don’t have to worry about rust. good luck with that.

heh… thanks for the laugh, Margaret. BTW I enjoyed your post re SciFi; you are a good writer. Keep posting more on whatever takes your fancy; you do a nice job with plain vanilla science, too.

Happy Thanksgiving, m’dear… to you and to everyone.

Yup. I think Bank of America is so far underwater that BP’s robot subs can’t even reach her and the biggest Longshot Louie at Hialeah wouldn’t put a fin on her fate now.

First, I find 9/11 Truther stuff to be a special kind of ridiculous. The government can’t keep its torture regime secret, can’t keep it’s rendition program secret, can’t keep it’s warrantless eavesdropping program secret, can’t keep backroom deals with lobbyists secret, and so on. Yet I’m expected to believe that they could pull off something the scale of 9/11 without it being obvious beyond all doubt to everybody that they were behind it. Hell, we know about what we did in Cambodia, what we did all over Latin America, what we did in Iran. If there’s one thing we’re super bad at, it’s keeping secrets.

That said, complaining that they hijack public events, and that it’s somehow unconscionable, seems like special kind of hypocrisy. Did we have similar disdain for RNC protesters? How about Gay Rights activists trying to horn in on the President’s foo-foo fundraiser dinner? It seems like we’ve got no problem doing our own sort of trolling, and supporting those who do it, when they’re trolling from a position that we agree with.

Just an observation and not a criticism:

Ghost posted only one message @1 and 140 or so comments later people are still beating on the truthers.

Looks to me like the thread, which is supposed to be about Foreclosure Gate, was consensually hijacked by the majority, who for one reason or another, preferred bitching about truthers.

Happy Thanksgiving to y’all.

If you’re driving to spend the holiday with family and friends, don’t forget that there may be more traffic on the highways than usual for a four-day weekend holiday, due to Pistole’s Rape Extravaganza in the airports.

Be safe,

Namaste.

Depends on what kind of event it is. Ours was a small gathering for members of St Pete for Peace, not a public event although nobody was turned away. These people immediately tried to hijack the gathering and turn it into a forum for their issue. I don’t think that’s being hypocritical.

Re Bank of America and those large to-big-to-fail insolvent institutions; they keep sending out mailings every day it seems – that has to cost a ton of money. Can’t anyone at BoA figure out to stop that mailing contract?

This is nothing. Have you seen the restriction on Ireland by the IMF. They have to reduce minimum wage, among other things, to get a loan of worthless dollars.